Top 300 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind’s surface-play affects you very little.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

152. “You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

153. “Our minds are just waves on the ocean of consciousness. As waves, they come and go. As ocean, they are infinite and eternal. Know yourself as the ocean of being, the womb of all existence.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

154. “The world you think of is in your own mind.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

155. “It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

156. “Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

157. “Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

158. “It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

159. “Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

160. “Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

161. “You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

162. “See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

163. “The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

164. “There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

165. “Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

166. “Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

167. “Your burden is of false self-identifications – abandon them all.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

168. “The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

169. “Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

170. “The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

171. “Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

172. “Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

173. “Self-remembrance, awareness of ‘I am’ ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

174. “When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

175. “Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of ‘I’”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

176. “The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

177. “If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

178. “To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

179. “To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor non-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror; it becomes a part of living.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

180. “You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

181. “The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

182. “The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

183. “The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it – he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling ‘I am’ is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

184. “When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no ‘I am’. The ‘I am’ merges in the Absolute.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

185. “When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

186. “Self-realization definitely comes first. The mind cannot go beyond itself by itself. It must explode.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

187. “The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

188. “The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

189. “Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

190. “All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one...”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

191. “When the shadow is seen to be only a shadow, you stop following it. You turn around and discover the sun which was there all the time – behind your back!”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

192. “You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

193. “You know that you are. Don’t burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

194. “Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

195. “There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

196. “Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

197. “The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

198. “The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

199. “I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

200. “To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj